I was going to write about how last night we sat behind the most obnoxious baseball fan ever. I would go into all the gory details, but Jen has already done so brilliantly.
So instead, I will write about how I got the job I interviewed for last week! Yay! After four years as a Descent Analyst and six months of training to do operations part-time, I will be moving down the hall to work full-time as a space shuttle flight controller and become an RGPO. That’s Rendezvous Guidance and Procedures Officer. It’s a front-room Mission Control position and, in a nutshell, once certified I will work with the crew to make sure they know how to fly the shuttle to the space station (which involves a lot of complicated orbital mechanics that I now must learn), watch them from the control center during rendezvous to make sure they’re doing everything right, and if they do something wrong, tell them how to fix it. And maybe you’ll see me on TV.
I’m very, very excited.
Congrats! Very impressive job…makes my little job seem wimpy
Congrats! So excited. Now you can sit next to us and we can gossip. Oh, and I can tell you how the GPOs talk WAY too much on Dyn B, they are really noisy.
Congratulations!
Jen says you were in front of OF (ob fan); you say you were behind him. Does this bode well for Guidance and Procedures? (hahaha — or maybe I just don’t understand directions). Congratulations and many cheers for new job!
Oops. We were in front of him. Haha. My GPO career is off to a great start.
Big congrats, Sarah. That sounds like THE coolest job ever.
Wanted to ask a question. Is there any chance of a private tour for me and the family next weekend? We were goign to take the kids to space center and I told them you may be able to get us a ‘special’ tour. If there’s anything you can do, e-mail me and we’ll set it up.
congrats. sounds cool.
That’s incredible.
Congratulations.
At least you didn’t become another C3PO. Congratulations!
Way to go! Big ups from ATL!
Congrats!
Sarah!!!! awesome!!!
hooray! That is so awesome! 🙂